Dr. Mao-Hua Du is currently working at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. He received his B.S. degree in Physics (1998) from Fudan University, China. He then joined the Quantum Theory Project at the University of Florida (UF), and received his M.S. degree (2002) and Ph.D. degree (2003)in Physics. During his study at UF, he used Density Functional Theory (DFT), Classical Molecular Dynamics (CMD)and hybrid quantum-classical methods to study material properties and phenomena. He combined DFT with classical force field to study chemo-mechanical phenomena, in which the chemical reactivity at the molecular level and the mechanical stress at macroscopic scale amplify one another. He also studied the doping of the carbon nanotubes due to the encapsulation of metallofulerens, and the coherent electron transport in molecules.

His current research interests are:

1. Electronic structure and optical properties of quantum dots;
2. Hydrogen storage in carbon nanostructures;
3. Chemical doping of semiconductors.

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